STARGIRL Thematic Statement Support by Jessica Glentzer https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx Textual Evidence to Support analysis of how the character changed over the course of the novel. en-us 2022-01-12 15:51:03 UTC 2025-12-01 22:32:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2728.png Teenage years are a difficult time, but a good time to learn life lessons. jglentzer https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988656409 High school was a cruel experience for Stargirl, and Leo-- and Leo learned that fitting in is less important than love because he regretted Stargirl moving away. pg 184 "Is she there?" 
Leo looks for Stargirl as an adult.]]> 2022-01-12 16:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988656409 be yourself no matter what everyone thinks, or you won't be yourself 23ajohnston2 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988656944 star girl dose this]]> 2022-01-12 16:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988656944 23epflores https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988661593 Be who you are show yourself]]> 2022-01-12 16:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988661593 When you are true to yourself, the world cannot take away your joy. 23mulm https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988664071 When Stargirl changed herself for Leo, she barely had any pebbles in her happy wagon indicating that she was sad.]]> 2022-01-12 16:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988664071 Finding your identity is hard so don't change it. 23cmattison https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988665235 Star Girl does this and makes life hard for everyone to understand her.]]> 2022-01-12 16:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988665235 Be true to your real self . 23smasciorini https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988665805 If you have to change for someone to like you or be friends with you they are not a real friend.]]> 2022-01-12 16:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988665805 It's important to love your self just the way you are, and not try to change yourself for others. 23mflores4 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988667262 Stargirl loved herself as she was, but then she tried to change herself for Leo- and that made her sad, and ended up ruining their relationship. She went to the Ocatillo Dance without him, and got back to her true self and when she did, everyone felt free and happy because she was free and happy. 
PG 174: "You could hear: whoops and yahoos out there" as they danced the bunny hop in the desert

]]> 2022-01-12 16:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988667262 Stargirl is this before she became susan. 23asalinas1 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988667303 If you desire to make a difference in the world you must be different than the world.]]> 2022-01-12 16:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988667303 be true to yourself don't change for others 23jfree https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988667465 2022-01-12 16:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988667465 You shouldn't change yourself or identity for others because your happiness level will decrease if you do 23fsanchez https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988668777 When Stargirl changed herself to Susan she wasn't happy at all, this is proven on page 143 when Stargirl only had two stones left in her happy wagon. ]]> 2022-01-12 16:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988668777 Love can make you blind to the rest of the world. 23jvargas2 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988670066 stargirl loves leo and leo loves stargirl

“Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes.
Though I had my driver's license, I bought a cheap secondhand bicycle so
I could ride with her. Sometimes she led the way, sometimes I did. Whenever
we could, we rode side by side.

Pg. 107: She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

Pg. 107: She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh.
My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid
introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I
threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life”   the banner, the dessert ride it was all for her]]> 2022-01-12 16:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988670066 Be yourself or you will be extremely unhappy on the inside. 23mbesley https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988670414 In the book, when Stargirl conformed and pack her real self into a tiny box, then eventually no rocks in the happy wagon. PG?]]> 2022-01-12 16:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988670414 be yourself no matter what 23igarcia https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988672564 the reason you should be yourself is because sometimes you just want to be yourself and you want to be happy not sad.stargirl was not scared to be herself.]]> 2022-01-12 16:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988672564 You should be yourself and not try to fit in with other people because trying to please others does not end well. 23arodriguez13 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988675279 The author shows us that being yourself will make you feel like a better person because Stargirl tried to be someone else for Leo, but that just ended up in making her sad, Leo was happy at first PG 140: when Stargirl appears as Susan he says, "I had never been so happy and so proud in my life." but then Stargirl's "Happiness Wagon" is empty of rocks, showing that she is depressed because she's fake.]]> 2022-01-12 16:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988675279 If you desire to make a difference in the world you must be different from the world 23asalinas1 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988675601 2022-01-12 16:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988675601 True love means sacrificing somethings for that sake of the one you love 23xjavier https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988681265 Leo didn't make sacrifices, so stargirl left. pg 175 "That was the last any of us ever saw her."]]> 2022-01-12 16:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988681265 You should just love some one you love 23mflores4 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988681938 2022-01-12 16:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988681938 Teenage years are difficult. 23epflores https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988682240 Teenage years are difficult because of the problem of bullying.]]> 2022-01-12 16:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988682240 The struggle to establish identity is difficult. 23abritton https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988682794 the students always try to be the same or different. but they really don't know anything, stargirl showed to be different and she was happy. but leo really messed up everything for her, you can be 20 or older and still not know who you are ]]> 2022-01-12 16:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988682794 No one has a feel good streak for long, so enjoy it while it lasts. 23mbesley https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988682994 leo and stargirl had a good time with each other but leo let her go for popularity and he didn't even get any that was his biggest mistake. 

Pg. 175: "She climbed into the sidecar, the flowered bicycle rolled off into the night, and that was the last of any of us saw of her.]]> 2022-01-12 16:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988682994 Leo wants Stargirl to change but when she does she is unhappy 23jvargas2 https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988683253 when stargirl changes back to susan she looks sad and feels uncomfortable and when she gets home she cry's because she dosen't want to be like this anymore ]]> 2022-01-12 16:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/1988683253 You shouldn't change to please the ones you love. 23ugutierrez https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/2010209170 “He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.
"Yes," I said.
"She did it for you, you know."
"What?"
"Gave up her self, for a while there. She loved you that much. What an incredibly lucky kid you were."
I could not look at him. "I know."
He shook his head with a wistful sadness. "No, you don't. You can't know yet. Maybe someday..."
I knew he was tempted to say more. Probably to tell me how stupid I was, how cowardly, that I blew the best
chance I would ever have. But his smile returned, and his eyes were tender again, and nothing harsher
than cherry smoke came out of his mouth.”]]> 2022-01-25 03:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jglentzer/6p9apytd6vbatekx/wish/2010209170